Linguo-cognitive features of the allusive anthroponyms’ use in Ray Bradbury’s novel “Fahrenheit 451°”
https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2025-80-2-13-20
Abstract
The article investigates allusive anthroponym’s functions in a literary text in the context of cognitive stylistics, studying the features of the conceptosphere formation in a fiction text and the interaction of cognitive entities. The relevance of the study is determined by the search for new ways used to analyze the tropes’ functions, by the need to deeply penetrate into the semantic structure of a text and to study the actualization features of cognitive mechanisms underlying the stylistic technique of allusion and allusive anthroponym as its variety. The research questions of the study include the analysis and generalization of scientific sources on the issue of allusive anthroponym functions as a means of verbalization of allusive anthroponymic concept in a literary text, selection of empirical material of the study from the text of R. Bradbury’s novel ‘Fahrenheit 541°’, research of the obtained allusive anthroponyms in terms of sources of allusive references, typology of concepts and their layer structure. The results show that the analyzed novel is dominated by allusive anthroponyms with reference to the fields of poetry, prose, politics and philosophy. The predominant types of allusive anthroponymic concepts in the novel are allusive concepts–prototype images of culturally significant individuals, forming the representation and storage of cultural values, created by man. Structurally, the notional, associative and axiological layers are accentuated in the concepts. Allusive anthroponymic concepts are characterized by a general positive assessment of the activities of allusive anthroponyms’ referents and the results of their creativity.
About the Author
M. A. Ananyina
Ural Federal University, named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ananyina Marina Aleksandrovna, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor,
51 Lenin Str., Yekaterinburg, 620000
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Ananyina M.A. Linguo-cognitive features of the allusive anthroponyms’ use in Ray Bradbury’s novel “Fahrenheit 451°”. Philology and Culture. 2025;(2):13-20. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2025-80-2-13-20
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